30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia | Memory of Nations

self-portrait 1946

MUDr. Vladimír Piskáček

* 1929

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Zbyněk Pišťák while in the air force - on leave in Mukačevo, 1937

Zbyněk Pišťák

* 1915 †︎ 2014

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Dieter Piwernetz in Weidenberg, 2019

Dieter Piwernetz

* 1938

Victim of forced relocation, GDR - outgoing passengers, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Marie Plachá, circa 1942

Marie Plachá

* 1934

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Sudeten Germans

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Erich Plachtzik - 1938

Erich Plachtzik

* 1930

National minorities, Sudeten Germans

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Renata Sandner (1940-1945)

Renata Plášilová

* 1928

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories and 3 more anniversaries

Blažena Plesarová in her youth

Blažena Plesarová

* 1929

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Anna Plesníková

Anna Plesníková

* 1937 †︎ unknown

People helping Jews during WWII, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Walter Plischke at the end of 4th grade

Walter Plischke

* 1944

National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Private Václav Plos

* 1923

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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